Pasteboard box.



' Y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

FREDERICK P. KLEIN, or SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR To-` f MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY, F SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, A

\ Pasteboard Boxes, of which specification.

CORPORATION.

' WASTEBollinoy Box.

Patented oct. so, 1906i App-notti alta .my 15,1905. smh no. 269,842. y

Toftll whom it' may concern:

Be it knownthat I, FREDERICK P. KLEIN, a citizen ofthe United- States of America, re-

siding at S ringfield,in the county of Hlamp-A Y den andl tate of Massachusetts, have .in

vented new and useful Improvements in the following is a This invention relates to the manufacture of pasteboard boxes, and4 especially to shallow boxes such as are when hinged together used for ackgammon and checker boards,

and which being shallow require heavily-re 4inforced side and .end portlons to prevent their walping or springing out of true; and the object o the present invention is to provide a blank from which boxes having the abovebox.

described characteristicsmay be economic;

ally manufactured; and the invention consists in the b ox construction described in the following specification and' illustrated in the accompan .'ng -drawings and in the blank from whic the box is made.

Figure 1 isa erspe'ctive view of a completed checkers oard or box made from blanks forming the subject-matter of this invention, the boxbeing shown partly open in full lines and one-half thereof in'fully-opened position in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 22, Fi 1, showing the tubular formation of the relnforced borders of the Fig. 3 iS a top plan View of one cornerv of the box. Fig. 4 1s a sectional view on line 4 4, Fie. 3, the section being vertical to the body o the box. Fi 5 is a similarsection on line 5 5, Fig. 3. ig. 6 is a plan viewof the blank from which the box is formed.

Referring to the drawings, a indicates the body of the blank which forms the rectangular bottom of the box, and on each of the oposite sides thereof are formed the rectanguar side sections b, c, d, and e, provided wlth scoring-lines g, h, and i, parallel with the sides of the b ank. l.

'0n the opposite ends of the blank are similar end sections 7', k, rm., and n,.also rectangular in form and-parallelwith said ends, the

section n, however, being as much llonger than the `other end sections as the width of the side sections b, to the end that, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 4, when theside sections.

and'end sections are folded uponl their scoring-lines o, p, g, and 1' to constitute the tubular rectangular .reinforcement s these outwardly-extending .portions 'nf of the end sections n .may overlap and close up the open ends of `said tubular reinforcement.

As shown inthe various sectional views,` the outer end and'side sections-viz., j j and e e-are folded over on their scoring-lines, so

that the outer borders thereof will `be dis-xk posed alongthe lines r and the lines f, respectively. Therefore if gunfbe applied to the under side of the side sections e and the end sections j and these -sections then folded over, asdescribed, to secure said sections to the body of the blank the other snide and end sections will constitute the two vertical and the horizontal u per portions of the rectangular tubular rein orcement vs, this construction bein clearly shown in Fig.v 2 especially.

W en. the end and side sections have been folded over and gummed in the manner de,- scribed, there is pasted on the body of the blank on the-interior of the box a pa er lining t, having the' usual points printe therev on as used in the backgammon ame.

Two of the boxes formed as united by a ilexible'hinge fv, and the outside of each Aof these boxes, together with the borders thereof, have asted thereona paper coverin Vprovided wit the usual s uares fw, on whic the game of checkers or c ess may be layed, 'the two boxes being so hinged toetlier that -when open the two outer Suraces thereof shall lie in the same plane.

A box made in the manner described from the'blankforming the subject-matter of this application is light-and rig1d and may be put together and finished at very small cost, the paper covering serving not only to ornamentall finishl the box, but to hide' all the foldingines of the box-blank.

Having thus described my invention, what I I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A box-blank com' rising a rectangular body portion and two Integral tube-forming vsections rectangular in shape and located in vparallel relation to each side of the bodyportion. and divided by four equally spaced scoresfthe ends of the blank also havin two/ integral tube-forming sections' divide by four ev ually-spaced scores, the portion of the end tu e-forming section adjacent the body portion being longer than the rest of the tube-forming section, whereby when the two tube-'forming sections are foldedtoward the escribed are IOO body-portion the longer portion of the end tu e-forrning section will close the end of the side tubes, as described. p

2. A rectangular box provided with a suitable body portion and with end and side lWalls which cross-section secured along their under side to the body of' the box, the outer wall of the tubes at the end of eachside or end of the box extending over the open end of the contiguous side or end tube to constitute a closure therefor.

4. A box-blank comprisingl a rectangular 'body portion and a tube-forming section rectangular in shape and located in parallel relation to each side and eachend 4of the body portion each? of said sections having four parallel scoring-lines extending lengthwise thereof, the length of that portion of the soctions contiguous to the body and located on opposite sides of the blank being longer than the other portions of said sections.

5. A rectangular box having a suitable body portion, end and side walls consisting of tubes formed from iaps integral with the body portions, thel flaps each having four scores equally spaced from each other forining the corners of the tubular sides and end portions when folded to form the tubes, the outermost part of each flap being folded onto the body portion and secured to the saine, one of the portions of the end flaps loriuinff a closure for the ends of the side tubes as described. l FREDERICK P. KLEIN.

Witnesses:

WM. H. CHAPIN, Y K. LCLEMONS. 

